Was Ron Wyden a 'pawn' when he directly asked Clapper about US spying and got lied to? Didn't think so. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/17/sorry-snowden-putin-lied-to-you-about-his-surveillance-state-and-made-you-a-pawn-of-it.html …
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Replying to @Ali_Gharib
@Ali_Gharib Was Wyden a fugitive of the law living here after breaking the law elsewhere?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Replying to @Ali_Gharib
@Ali_Gharib No but you raised a false equivalency to start as your premise.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @BradMossEsq
@Ali_Gharib If Snowden wanted to do something of substance, he would have asked about SORM. Not raise a softball question.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @BradMossEsq
@BradMossEsq So asking a 'softball q' (to which by all accounts Putin's answer was a lie) that makes him a pawn?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Ali_Gharib
@Ali_Gharib I noted Snowden's Q also tougher than most our non-coerced journos ask Alexander. Also got accused of false equiv@BradMossEsq3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel@Ali_Gharib None of them decided to leak thousands of documents and flout US law to "expose" what they viewed as illegal conduct2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @BradMossEsq
@BradMossEsq They're journalists. Their job is not to say "what would you like Americans to know abt program" & write down lies@Ali_Gharib1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel@Ali_Gharib Their job is to report the news. What constitutes "accurate information" is often in the eye of the beholder1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@BradMossEsq Right. The things that NSA's docs and sworn statements to courts are by def less accurate. @Ali_Gharib
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